Mohammad Beheshti

Mohammad Beheshti
محمد بهشتی
Beheshti in 1980
Chief Justice of Iran
Head of Supreme Court of Iran
In office
23 February 1980 – 28 June 1981
Appointed byRuhollah Khomeini
Succeeded byAbdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili
Head of Council of the Islamic Revolution
In office
9 September 1979 – 7 February 1980
Preceded byMahmoud Taleghani
Succeeded byAbolhassan Banisadr
Member of the Assembly of Experts for Constitution
In office
15 August 1979 – 15 November 1979
ConstituencyTehran Province
Majority1,547,550 (60.93%)
Personal details
Born(1928-10-24)24 October 1928
Isfahan, Imperial State of Persia
Died28 June 1981(1981-06-28) (aged 52)
Tehran, Iran
Cause of deathHaft-e Tir bombing
Resting placeHafte Tir Mausoleum
NationalityIranian
Political partyIslamic Republican Party
SpouseEzatolsharia Modares Motlagh[1]
Children4
Alma materUniversity of Tehran
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Sayyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti (Persian: سیّد محمد حسینی بهشتی; 24 October 1928 – 28 June 1981) was an Iranian jurist, philosopher, cleric and politician who was known as the second person in the political hierarchy of Iran after the Revolution.[2] Beheshti is considered to have been the primary architect of Iran's post-revolution constitution, as well as the administrative structure of the Islamic republic. Beheshti is also known to have selected and trained several prominent politicians in the Islamic Republic, such as former presidents Hassan Rouhani and Mohammad Khatami, Ali Akbar Velayati, Mohammad Javad Larijani, Ali Fallahian, and Mostafa Pourmohammadi.[3] Beheshti also served as the Secretary General of the Islamic Republic Party, and was the head of the Iranian judicial system. He further served as Chairman of the Council of Islamic Revolution, and the Assembly of Experts. Beheshti earned a PhD in philosophy, and was fluent in English, German and Arabic.

On 28 June 1981, Beheshti was assassinated in the Hafte tir bombing by the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), along with more than 70 members of the Islamic Republic Party, including four cabinet ministers and 23 members of parliament.[4] The Iranian government blamed Mohammad Reza Kolahi as the MEK operative involved in the incident.[5] Following his death, Ayatollah Khomeini referred to Beheshti as a person who was "as a nation for us."[6]

  1. ^ "خادم بقعه شهید بهشتی اهل مزار شریف هست". farsnews. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  2. ^ "BEHESHTI WAS SEEN AS NO. 2 FIGURE IN IRAN AFTER THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION". The New York Times. 29 June 1981.
  3. ^ The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Mohammad Hosayn Beheshti". britannica. Retrieved 24 October 2003. {{cite web}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ Rubin, Barry M.; Rubin, Judith Colp (2008), "The Iranian Revolution and The War in Afghanistan", Chronologies of Modern Terrorism, M.E. Sharpe, p. 246, ISBN 9780765622068, In Tehran, Iran, a bomb set by the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), a leftist group with a philosophy combining Marxism and Islam, explodes at the headquarters of the ruling Islamic Republican Party, killing 73 people, including the party's founder, chief justice Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, four cabinet ministers and 23 parliament members.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYT1981 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Imam Khomeini – Beheshti Was Himself a Nation for Us: Imam Khomeini". en.imam-khomeini.ir.

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